Funding: Own budget (31), Tech company (Google/GNI) (8), Tech company (OpenAI) (4), Media dev org (1)
Copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI — India's first generative AI copyright case (ANI Media Pvt Ltd v. OpenAI OPCO LLC, Delhi High Court, filed Nov. 2024); ANI, India's largest independent news wire, alleges OpenAI scraped its copyrighted news content without authorization to train ChatGPT; contends OpenAI had no right to use freely-accessible content for profit; seeks ₹2 crore (~$240,000) in damages…
Fintech AI Suite — AI-powered data monetisation product using content patterns and natural language processing from Hindustan Times digital properties to build alternative credit profiles for underbanked users; leverages journalism content consumption data and user behaviour signals as alternative data sources for credit scoring, enabling access to financial products for users with limited traditional credit…
Sana — GenAI-powered AI TV anchor; India's first AI news anchor; unveiled at India Today Conclave (March 2023); presents prime-time 9 PM news on India Today TV; anchors Superfast News (100 headlines in 10–15 minutes on YouTube); also serves as a radio host reading sports scores, traffic updates and personalised content; within six months of launch Sana had anchored more than 200 hours of programming and became…
Participant in Google AI article overviews pilot on Google News (announced Dec. 11, 2025) — World's largest English-language daily joins Google's AI article overviews pilot; builds on existing commercial relationships through the Google News Showcase scheme; deal delivers AI-powered article overviews on Google News pages, audio briefings, and real-time information in the Gemini app; articles carry clear…
'SmartCMS' — a Google Cloud + Gemini-powered content management system driving newsroom transformation. Gemini-powered 'Smart Interlinking' and 'SmartToggle' automatically turn articles into omni-channel assets; a unified login (Jagran SSO) powers personalised recommendations, AI chatbots for cross-format discovery, gamified quizzes and AI audience segmentation for micro-subscription strategies.
DataLEADS convened the Shakti Collective — a fact-checking coalition (with the Misinformation Combat Alliance, BOOM, The Quint, Vishvas News, Factly, Newschecker, India Today, PTI and others) for India's 2024 general elections — to speed early detection of election misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes and amplify fact-checks in regional Indian languages.